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Nursing Informatics in Health Care

In a medical setting, medication safety is a vital aspect of efficient medical services. Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) are a significant danger, causing recurring hospital stays and deaths. It accounts for 4.2% to 30% of all hospitalizations in the United States, with mortality and morbidity costing $30 to $130 billion annually (Sendekie et al., 2023). Several ADEs are avoidable with effective measures. This proposal calls for integrating a Nurse Informaticist (NI) within our medical institution to improve medication safety and minimize ADEs.

Role of Nurse Informaticists

Nursing informatics is the skill that blends the nursing field with diverse analytical and technological domains to identify, organize, and communicate data in clinical practice (Kleib et al., 2021). This field strives to enhance nursing practices and care provision, enabling medical professionals to make more informed decisions using informatics tools. In today’s healthcare systems, NI plays a diverse and critical function. NIs mediate between nursing staff and Information Technology (IT) sections, guaranteeing that technology meets the nurses’ needs and advances their practices. They perform an essential role in building, deploying, and refining medical data systems to fulfill healthcare demands and improve patient safety, standard of treatment, and workflow productivity (Johnson, 2024).

NIs leverage Electronic Health Records (EHR) to improve workflow and medication security and mitigate ADE. They help to ensure that these systems work seamlessly, resulting in better communication and patient outcomes. NIs work as instructors to educate patients and nurses about tools, investigators, and administrators, cooperating with interdisciplinary teams to develop improved practices (Harerimana et al., 2022). In their instructional dimensions, NIs provide critical insights for pharmaceutical management. NIs design strategies to incorporate technology into safety measures, improving patient care. NIs play a vital part in improving medication safety and minimizing ADEs using various measures.

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For example, NI uses specific medication management systems such as Electronic Medication Administration Records (eMAR) and aids nurses in managing drug administration (Owens et al., 2022). They also use Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) and Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) to integrate drug-drug interaction alerts directly into EHRs, which reduces ADEs (Van et al., 2020). Furthermore, NIs plan and manage databases to track prescription mistakes. These databases enable nurses to identify patterns, allowing targeted responses to improve patient safety.

NIs use Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA) systems, which scan drug barcodes to ensure adequate drug management. By increasing patient safety through mistake avoidance, NIs using BCMA lower the likelihood of ADEs (Owens et al., 2022). The NI in our medical organization will enhance drug safety, lower ADEs, and improve medication delivery procedures by implementing eMARs and CDSS for drug warnings and interoperable medical data systems to facilitate reconciling medications. While their involvement is crucial, compliance with the American Nurses Association (ANA) guidelines is critical in using informatics to promote healthcare outcomes (Kleib et al., 2021). 

Nurse Informaticists and Health Care Organizations

Several medical facilities incorporate NI into the workforce and have reported favorable outcomes. For instance, New York-Presbyterian (NYP) has considerably impacted patient care standards and security. NI from New York-Presbyterian acknowledges her contributions by stating that their work with information tools like management systems has significantly impacted medical processes, optimizing the systems’ long-term impact (NYP, n.d.). Furthermore, these specialists improved clinical procedures and provided training and assistance to nursing personnel at the facility. However, multiple organizations face challenges, like reluctance to change, limited resources, and incorporating systems issues. NI has a positive role in medical organizations, fostering creativity, productivity, and excellence in healthcare delivery (Kleib et al., 2021).

NI can employ medical technology to affect patient care, data management, operation, and financial elements of medical service delivery. NIs ensure patients receive safe and quality treatment by improving communication, documenting accurately, and providing prompt access t